Tries really hard and thinks that it is really profound but it was mainly just laughable and pretty unbelievable at times. The story is a giant cliche and a lot of the time the characters just walk around talking to themselves which is not only really annoying but lazy writing and an easy way to tell the audience what the character is going through rather than showing us. Wanted to like it but besides Mariangela Melato's tits, it's simply not anything special.

It seemed like it was meant to be a commentary showing that communism and capitalism are both good and bad in their own ways, but they never really landed a punch in favor of communism. It felt like it thought it was amazingly deep but it was rather shallow and simple.

Interesting, but not great.

A complete breakdown and rebuild of class structure wrapped around something destructive/affectionate/heartbreaking. Unbelievable level of cinematography. I cannot get enough of Giancarlo Giannini and I don't want to.

I watched this again. It's an absolute masterpiece. Roughly speaking, I spent the first act laughing, the second in a state of shock and the third act crying my eyes out.